Every time I see a playthrough of this and hear the music, every - single - time, I remember sitting on the floor in the living room playing through it while my dad played jim croce on his big, new stand up entertainment center

@louiepooh1510

2 жыл бұрын

'If I could save time in a bottle...' seems appropriate.

@jtnuts9362

2 жыл бұрын

Bad bad Leroy Brown blasting in the background while killing demons. We must had the same childhood lol

@derekv4552

2 жыл бұрын

@@jtnuts9362 must have. It's a very vivid memory, lol

@panicfarm9874

2 жыл бұрын

Great…

@PronatorTendon

2 жыл бұрын

Wow that's crazy, I can say the same thing about my mother and our console record player in the 80s, Jim Croce and dozens of others

This was one of my favorite rentals from my childhood NES days. Great pick Arcus.

@davidbermudez7704

2 жыл бұрын

To this day I still play it

@spamman6369

2 жыл бұрын

Same here. I rented this one many times. I played it recently and it felt so alien, i had no idea what to do or where to go. Lol gettin old

@earlthepearl6414

2 жыл бұрын

Many nostalgic memories of renting this game as well!!!! How I long for the past. Back when times were much better!

@trollwithoutcontent2788

2 жыл бұрын

Ahhh don’t you love that? Those games that you never owned BUT rented many times? Hmmm love it. “The Legend of Kage” was one of those for me

Arcus is the Bob Ross of gaming XD... so relaxing with happy little accidents ....

@SlippyMcDervish

2 жыл бұрын

Very true

Rented it a couple times as a kid, but really couldn't do much with it. Just seemed to wander about and eventually die. GG and congrats!

I love your runs because I always get to see parts of games I've never seen as a kid playing them

@pawemichalski5043

2 жыл бұрын

He glitched the last part, so you haven't seen the last stages of this game :)

@princesssprinklesthecat4192

2 жыл бұрын

Wow you suck at video games bud

@Bootlip007

Жыл бұрын

i played this for years never beat it lol

It's weird when a long forgotten memory returns, the feeling is almost indescribable. I forgot this game even existed until the invincibility music and gem chest screen. I don't think I ever got past the first level, I only remember thinking the sword was useless.

This was actually the first NES game I played in like, 1987. GG!!!

I love how the game just says “THE MAP”. Like, “screw you, we don’t have to name this world!”

I have memories of renting this game from video store and playing with my brother and friends and we all we in awe of this game. I loved it and recently bought it and beat it again.

This guy is such a joy to watch. Calm and steady.

Love that you're playing this Arcus! Probably my fave NES game from when I was a kid, love it!

I totally remember playing this game back in the day...a knight jumping everywhere and very little hand-to-hand combat...

I loved this goofy-ass game back in the day. It's wild that you can get the ending faster by glitching back to stage 1 like that

Still have my copy from when I was a child, Love this game! ❤️

@andrewtrushinski3848

2 жыл бұрын

Love the gpk avatar!

That jump for the Feather of Feather Fall took me FOREVER to figure out and even now I can only pull it off every now and then. Great work as usual, Arcus!

i subscribed because i remember how insane this game was as a kid... and he made it look like a joke..... while he hummed the "you're gonna die" music on the first stage. +1

One of my favorite games when I was younger

Such an odd game. When I was a kid I never remember making that past the first stage

@brandonsutton3750

2 жыл бұрын

if this is odd, then Iron Sword must have REALLY been crazy for you! heh

@adrianshappymoments9343

2 жыл бұрын

@@brandonsutton3750 yeah, that one is a trip

@brandonsutton3750

2 жыл бұрын

@@adrianshappymoments9343 yeah I wanted to like it since I liked this game so much, but I was just awful at iron sword. hahaha

Nice speed run, Arcus! Thou hast def discovered gems, my man! 🤠

The music brings back sooo many memories

this game has confused me since the 80s.

@AnnalinaSR21

2 жыл бұрын

I have no idea why you need the gems 💎 lol

@ithakra

2 жыл бұрын

@@AnnalinaSR21 gotta pay the doorman lol.

@AnnalinaSR21

2 жыл бұрын

@@ithakra oh o.o

@namelessjedi2242

2 жыл бұрын

You need gems to bribe the knights guarding certain passages.

Arcus! Such a great choice! I love all your runs but I especially like this one. Kudos to you my friend. I've played all 3 instances of the W&W saga. I like the 3rd one the most maybe you can make a run on it, but the other two are fine. It's just that the third I think was a bit more fun to play. The music score, the game mechanics, the graphics... This one is way more challenging and requires a lot of patience and skill. But again kudos(Kuros! lol) to you and hopefully we will see you playing the II and III. Thanks man!

You are a master of your craft! Never would have believed it could be beaten in under 15 minutes. I owned this game in 1990 and it took me 3+ hours to beat it.

Omg I loved this game! It was so difficult as a kid! Annnnd CLUNK

@drakonolus7922

2 жыл бұрын

Difficult, but very easy. In a one sit of a day you could finished this ( after at dying 100000000 times in a row )

Pretty amazing stuff! I loved this game as a kid and I still love the music from it today! In fact, I think I’m gonna go home and make a couple ringtones for my phone! Thanks for the video!

I played this a few times at a friend's house, never got very far. I did end up buying the second one and eventually beating it. Pretty good game, wouldn't mind seeing it make a comeback. Congrats on the PB!

That's a substantial improvement on that PB. Nicely done

“Aaanndd klunk *game sound playing*” - Arcus 🤠 👢 👢

One of my all time favourite NES games growing up. Awesome! I live in Tucson myself brother.

Never saw stage 3 for this game. Owned it for a decade. Great vid.

Still one of my favorite games of all time 💯 Great speedrun 🔥

We need Arcus at a GDQ. The world needs to see how awesome this man is, as a runner and as a human.

Great video of my favorite game and streamer thank you Arcus

This music.......INSTANTLY brings me back!!!

I remember this as a child and how the box art and game didn’t match up at all. I was so disappointed by the game.

@homelessjesse9453

2 жыл бұрын

Movie and video game posters were similar in that regard. Awesome artwork. The end product though? Not so much.

@RobberStormfire

2 жыл бұрын

Same with the game Deadly Towers. The box art was so cool and the game was hot garbage

@ironbowtie

2 жыл бұрын

Not a Fabio fan, huh.

Wow this takes me back!

Arcus; The Man, The Myth, The Legend

I used to beat this game as a 7 year old kid back in like 1988. Took me a couple hours I think, not 15 minutes... lol.

@namelessjedi2242

2 жыл бұрын

I probably spent more than 15 minutes just waiting for an enemy to drop a purple potion so I could jump up that one ledge in the cave. 😆

Played through this a lot when it was new. It was kind of just a fun zen thing to do quick runs of, and mess around with. Now though, it seems weird AF. It's really an unusual game which is oddly fun to play despite making no sense at all.

Great run,I remember the first time I realized how strong the boot was in defeating the bosses……👏👏👏

This is one of my favorite games ever

gg. This was one of my favorite games of my childhood :)

I don't think there was any other NES game I wanted to be better at, and was worse at. This game baffled my 6-10 year old existence. Watching you play through it now shows me, I never stood a chance lol...

I’d play this game as a kid all the time (never got past the first stage) every time my health got low and that music started my mom would start going “You’re gonna die” in tune with the music. I can’t unhear it.

When you said, “We got the meat..”, the Go-Go’s immediately popped in my head 😊

I love your content, and this is a great run. The only slight quibble is the "noise" in the background.

I was so obsessed with this game as a kid and it was so hard for me, thanks for reminding me I need to give this a play through!

Loved this game when I was a kid

So many hours running around like a chicken with our heads cut off! It’s awesome to see there was an easier way 😂

Great! 👍 love this game 🎮 good job, again. Thanks for the nostalgic memories of good NES... 🤓 😎

One of my favorite video game music scores but the name “Arcus” still frightens me.

These games have 🔥 soundtracks

@spamman6369

2 жыл бұрын

Check out ‘Vomitron’ - he has an amazing heavy metal cover of this and many other soundtracks from NES titles.

It's fun to see you actually get excited, you are so even keeled lol

That hoo ahh stage two for the feather was epic

I loved this game so Much.

Love your channel so much. NES is the best

i was never able to beat this game as a kid, nice run

Wizards and warriors is such an underrated fun game.

I put so much time into this game as a kid

That jump at 5:12 used to drive me nuts. would take me a good 5 minutes a lil kid

One of my fav games

This is one of the only NES non-rpg games i ever beat as a kid!

Ok, you can't just play one of my most nostalgic games from my childhood and think you can get away with it do you? Lol This is fantastic...

Dude i am glad i found you. When i seen you for the first time wearing your hat. I thought ??? Huh and i started watching all your videos. And the way you smashed wizards and warriors amazed me beyond belief. I have a twin and he was the video game player growing up at first while i was the sporty child but i got the best of both worlds outside playing sports all day and coming in at dark and me and my twin playing video games and his channel is "Nubs The Gamer" but anyway you threw me off and im thought he cant be that good at games but wow!!!! Your run was awesome. Where are you from if i may ask? I don't wanna be stereotypical and think Texas because of your get up lol see you in the next game buddy take care.

Thankyou for this

Well done for completing it with 3 lives.

yes, before there was Elden Ring, there was Wizards and Warriors! lol. I remember playing this on cartridge as a kid. When From Software first came out with Demon's Souls I immediately thought of this game and said to myself, "That's Wizards and Warriors!". It's crazy. That game was hard as hell, btw. Even for a 9 year old like me back then. When I think Knight in Shining armor I don't think Karate Kid 2 theme song. I think Wizards and Warriors.

Wow! I remember playing this game, I could never finish it that fast. 👍

This guy is an absolute monster!

Insane Run!

Good times, good memories.

Well done sir !

So in the first three levels, the knight has been to Hugh Hefner’s estate to rescue Lucinda (stripper name if ever I’ve heard one), saved Esmerelda from Quasimodo in Notre Dame and travelled to Middle Earth to rescue the most power elf this side of the undying lands? Fair play to him.

So fun and impressive. Woo!!

I remember the somehow catchy 'banger' when your character got down to three bars or lower of health. Every time I played and every time I heard it, I'd get REALLY nervous and thought 'Gotta find the meat!' :P

man you play all of my favs

@yugdesiral

2 жыл бұрын

but do a glitchless, the glitched version is a disgrace to the game. no castle :(

15 damn minutes?!?! I remember way back in the day the first time me and my cousins beat this it took us ALL DAMN NIGHT.

I liked this game as a kid, but I don't think I ever really understood it or got very far. I liked the way things moved and the sound and music. I think I was able to do a little more on the sequels that had different suits of armor.

Arcus is not a Cowboy, he is a Cowman.

Nice run should of been a 14:31 heard like 5 hooOOwaaaas in that. Thanks brother good content.

This game was one of my favorite on the nes. I glitch killed the spider in one hit once... no idea how.

I did not know of the amazing power of the boots of force

Awesome... I had no idea about the level glitches. But i wonder what the record is playing straight through....

I used to sing "you need meat" when I watched my brothers play this with low health.

Though I never owned this as a kid, I rented it a few times and was very fond of it. I was only able to make it past the second stage. I own it now, and have still never beat it. Might have to retry.

Funny how the last princess is named Candida, which is the name of a fungal yeast microorganism 😂😂

Thank goodness I still have the WR

now that is a stache!

Well played, oh Western One.

I always wondered why they had you enter your name at the end when the info couldn't be saved after removing the game.

15 mins lol i spent hours on this as a kid loved this game

From my previous comment a year ago, when I played this I had to scale the outside of the castle before the large area that require 200 or 250? gems.

I like how the last damsel shares her name with a yeast infection.

Imagine being in metal and walking through a pillar of fire

i need to try this speedrun

What did you do? this was for real? I played this game for almost most 30 years, and never knew about these glitches ..... 😓

Just curious, why don't you use the dagger of throwing to pick up gems more often? Doing so nets you two gems per each instead of the one you get by manually collecting it.

Beat it back in the days, not so fast :D and the way was different. There was an enemy growing after a few hits.

@AkiraHDR50

2 жыл бұрын

He used a glitch to skip the castle and the growing skeleton and the final boss.

14:47 That's the most mighty HOOWAH I've ever heard.

Funny how many people in comments specifically remember renting this game. When I rented it as a kid, it was absolutely amazing! Playing it today it is pretty strange to say the least.